Bullet Points 11 (Paperback)

Face the darkness of combat with unflinching eyes. The deepest horror gives prelude to the greatest human courage, as the sixteen stories in Bullet Points 11 show. This issue explores the terrifying spectrum of military science fiction horror, featuring original stories from James S. Aaron, Gio Clairval, and Mandy Munro, alongside works from Jeremy Szal, Sean Patrick Hazlett, Emma Burnett, Rich Larson, and Addison Smith. The stories in Bullet Points 11 don't just terrify and sadden; they awe and inspire:

• Rich Larson, "Sniper and I": An endless war. A sniper bonded to a living rifle. An agent sent to spot them.
• Jeremy Szal, "Dead Men Walking": Armoured soldiers on a far-flung planet discover a dark secret about their Commander, and themselves.
• Kurt Newton: "Wax Soldiers": Separated from his unit in a bombed-out maze, a lone soldier makes a final stand within the sanctuary of a ruined church.
• Gerri Leen, "How to Deploy Tauran Monster Crabs": Follow these protocols exactly; mental contact requires absolute discipline to prevent monster crabs from staring into your soul.
• Gio Clairval, "Operation BLACK ICE": A black-ops team sent to a silent Antarctic outpost discovers something ancient, adaptive, and unspeakable waiting beneath the ice.
• Michael Baez, "A Lesson in History": In an alternate reality where the clergy serves on the front lines, a weary chaplain discovers that faith functions as its own kind of weapon.
• Emma Burnett, "The Room on the Other Side of the Plexi": When a micrometeorite pierces a refugee ship's hull, a mother risks everything to save a simple token of comfort.
• Sean Patrick Hazlett, "Mandible": In the mud of war-torn Angola, a haunted CIA operative uses occult methods to open a gateway better left closed.
• Mandy Munro, "Black Rain": Ana and her Ma fight to evade the relentless alien hunters that swarm the skies.
• Natasha Smith, "A Little Contagion Never Hurt Anyone": After drawing the short straw, Devon is forced to merge his consciousness with an invasive species.
• Grigory Lukin, "Hard As a Mirror of Cast Bronze": An assassin searches sideways and down across alternate dimensions to find his target.
• James S. Aaron, "EagleEye": In a near-future civil war, a young officer uses a terrifying social media app to turn his enemy's grief into a weapon of psychological warfare.
• Henry Herz, "In the Deadly Dark": Russian soldiers think they've uncovered a vast diamond deposit in occupied Ukraine, but that's not all they discover.
• Addison Smith, "Bone and Acid and Rushing Waves": Nova carries her captain’s head into battle.
• Don Money, "Below to the Fray": The Tunnel Rats are the brave soldiers tasked with getting into the enemy tunnels to bring the fight to them.
• Liam Hogan, "For Remembrance": In the aftermath of a war, a squad of soldiers investigates reports of a psychic. It takes one to know one.